Category: Textbooks

Fortifying readers’ connection to geography through active, discovery-based learning Trusted for its readability, timeliness, and sound pedagogy, Rubenstein’s The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography 12th edition, (PDF) stresses the relevance of geographic concepts to human challenges. The relationship between globalization and diversity is woven throughout; Rubenstein addresses these themes

Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, 11th global edition, (in PDF) strives to make the technology of the modern crime laboratory clear and comprehensible to the non-scientist. The nature of physical evidence is defined, and the limitations that tech and current knowledge impose on its individualization and characterization are examined.

The Laser Beam Shaping Applications, 2nd edition (PDF) explains the essential features of beam shaping and exposes the subtleties of the theory and techniques that are best shown through proven applications. New chapters include illumination light shaping in optical lithography; optical micro-manipulation of live mammalian cells through trapping, sorting, and

Explore the changing nature of the West – The West: Encounters and Transformations 5e (PDF) examines the changing nature of Western civilization — helping college students to understand how the definition of the ‘West’ has both transformed and evolved throughout history. Focusing on the central theme of cultural encounters, authors

Many advances in medicine and surgery can be traced back to advances in our understanding of the structure and function of the human body. Human anatomy became an objective discipline in the sixteenth century, based on direct observation and scientific principles. Not surprisingly, the study of human anatomy has progressed